Pak pm may get tested for covid-19

Imran Khan may be tested for the coronavirus or asked to gointo isolation after a well-known philanthropist was tested positive for theCOVID-19, days after meeting the Pakistan prime

minister, his doctor said onTuesday. Faisal Edhi, the son of late philanthropist Abdul SattarEdhi and chairman of the Edhi Foundation, met Khan last week. Khan’s personal physician and CEO

of Shaukat Khanum MemorialCancer Hospital, Faisal Sultan, told media that would meet Khan on Tuesday. I will meet him and recommend that he gets testedWe willfollow all protocols in place

and make recommendations accordingly, he said. The protocols recommend self-isolation for people who meetthose tested positive for the coronavirus. Pakistan on Tuesday reported 16 more

deaths from thecoronavirus, taking the country’s toll to 192, while the number of confirmedspiked to over 9,000. It is not clear how Khan will run the government if he wasasked to go into

quarantine. Khan is currently working as per routine and also chaired ameeting of Cabinet. Earlier, Saad, the son of Faisal Edhi told the Dawnnewspaper that his father started showing

symptoms last week, soon aftermeeting Khan in Islamabad on April 15. “The symptoms lasted for four days beforesubsiding,” Saad said. He added that his father was currently in Islamabad and

wasdoing better. “He has not been admitted to any hospital and isself-isolating,” he said. Faisal Edhi had met Prime Minister Khan to hand over a Rs 10million cheque for the premier’s

coronavirus relief fund. The Edhi Foundation was founded by the late Abdul Sattar Edhiand is the leading charity organisation in Pakistan.